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Public Geospatial Data Project

2006-05-22T20:36:18Z

Wiki-Fbiasi: /* People interested in participating */

There is an official [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A collection of geospatial datasets shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Mailing List ===

There is a mailing list for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo.

Subscribe: geodata-subscribe@geodata.osgeo.org
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=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 fixed time]

See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.

=== People interested in participating ===

* David Bitner
* Allan Doyle
* Florian Kindl
* Pericles S. Nacionales
* Markus Neteler
* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
* Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
* Daniel Brookshier
* Schuyler Erle
* Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
* Steve Coast
* Mikel Maron
* Alessandro Frigeri
* David Blasby
* [[User:kevinyam| Kevin Yam]]
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]
* [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* Ned Horning
* [[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]]
* Colin Gowens
* [[User:smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]]
* [[User:fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
* ''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]
* [http://www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial Consortium]

== Events ==

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]
* [http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cons.geo.portal Conservation GeoPortal]
* [http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway] - Lots of good imagery

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===

* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] [http://datafinder.org Datafinder] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]
* [http://www.oasisnyc.org New York City Open Accessible Space Information System]
* [http://www.mass.gov/mgis Massachusetts GIS]

On the [[Geodata Repository]] page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."
* [http://ppgis.iapad.org/ Public Participation GIS] - "

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. <br> [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
* [http://www.metrogis.org/documents/articles/index.shtml Articles] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/testimonials/index.shtml Testimonials] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/studies/index.shtml Studies] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/perf_measure/index.shtml Performance Measures] about [http://www.metrogis.org Metrogis], a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA

User:Fbiasi

2006-05-22T20:35:02Z

Wiki-Fbiasi:

Please check out my main page on [http://conserveonline.org/Members/fbiasi ConserveOnline]

Geodata Licensing Working Group

2006-05-22T20:28:29Z

Wiki-Fbiasi: /* Participants */

This is a project started by the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

The right to reuse and redistribute publically accessible bodies of data needs to be clear. This group can help provide guidelines for public geodata licensing, both of community-contributed and state-collected bodies of data.

== Focus ==

* Provision of clear guidelines for licenses, and the implications of their uses, for people contributing data to geospatial web / GSDI efforts.
* Potential work on a draft LPGL license to complement the draft [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl/ PGL].

[[Image:Cc_license_smaller.png]]

== Participants ==

* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:Pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (Jo and Schuyler need company :)
* [[User:dF|Daniel FAIVRE]]
* [[User:fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
* ''your name here''

== Existing and related projects ==

* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/ Geodata Commons]
* [http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenKnowledgeDefinition Open Knowledge Definition] survey of open license stances, a superset of this effort.

== Geodata Licenses ==

=== Public Geodata Licence ===

* original [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL Public Geodata License] (French/English)
* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl Group PGL-Canada]

=== Canadian Unrestricted Use Licence ===
* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp Geobase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement] - BSD style license
* [http://www.cits.rncan.gc.ca/cit/servlet/CIT/site_id=01&page_id=1-021-001-007.html same license at Natural Resources Canada]

=== Creative Commons ===

* [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] is not a data-specific license, but Open

[[Image:Osm_license_small.png]]

== References ==

* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl/ Public Geodata License] - [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL French version, and cooperative website for license writing]
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Legal_FAQ OpenStreetmap Legal FAQ]
* [http://www.spatial.maine.edu/geodatacommons/PubCommonsSNGL.pdf Public Commons of Geographic Data - Research and Development Challenges (PDF)] - discusses IP issues
* [http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11079.html Licensing Geographic Data and Services] - book with some sample PDFs - cf [http://www.nap.edu/books/0309092671/html/213.htm Section 3, Chapter 9]
* [http://sciencecommons.org/data The Science Commons Data project] - explores ways to assure broad access to scientific data

== See Also ==

* [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]

Public Geospatial Data Project

2006-05-22T20:26:49Z

Wiki-Fbiasi: /* People interested in participating */

There is an official [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A collection of geospatial datasets shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Mailing List ===

There is a mailing list for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo.

Subscribe: geodata-subscribe@geodata.osgeo.org
Unsubscribe: geodata-unsubscribe@geodata.osgeo.org
Digest Subscribe: geodata-digest-subscribe@geodata.osgeo.org
Digest Unsubscribe: geodata-digest-unsubscribe@geodata.osgeo.org
Help: geodata-help@geodata.osgeo.org

=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 fixed time]

See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.

=== People interested in participating ===

* David Bitner
* Allan Doyle
* Florian Kindl
* Pericles S. Nacionales
* Markus Neteler
* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
* Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
* Daniel Brookshier
* Schuyler Erle
* Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
* Steve Coast
* Mikel Maron
* Alessandro Frigeri
* David Blasby
* [[User:kevinyam| Kevin Yam]]
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]
* [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* Ned Horning
* [[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]]
* Colin Gowens
* [[User:smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]]
* Frank Biasi
* ''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]
* [http://www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial Consortium]

== Events ==

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]
* [http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cons.geo.portal Conservation GeoPortal]
* [http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway] - Lots of good imagery

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===

* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] [http://datafinder.org Datafinder] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]
* [http://www.oasisnyc.org New York City Open Accessible Space Information System]
* [http://www.mass.gov/mgis Massachusetts GIS]

On the [[Geodata Repository]] page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."
* [http://ppgis.iapad.org/ Public Participation GIS] - "

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. <br> [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
* [http://www.metrogis.org/documents/articles/index.shtml Articles] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/testimonials/index.shtml Testimonials] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/studies/index.shtml Studies] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/perf_measure/index.shtml Performance Measures] about [http://www.metrogis.org Metrogis], a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA